Ensure that alternative care is a necessary, suitable and positive experience for children, with this free online course. Taking the UN Guidelines as a framework, this free online course will help you gain insight into how the unnecessary placement of a child in alternative care can be prevented; how alternative care can constitute a suitable, positive experience for a child when it is necessary; and how children and young people who are leaving care can best be supported. Learn with alternative care specialists from CELCIS, UNICEF and the UN.
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What topics will you cover?
Week 1 - Introduction to the Guidelines, the Principles, and Gatekeeping
Week 2 - Upholding the ‘necessity principle’: Supporting and Strengthening Families
Week 3 - Upholding the ‘necessity principle’: High-Risk Children and Gatekeeping
Week 4 - Upholding the ‘suitability principle’: Selecting from a Range of Formal Care Settings
Week 5 - Upholding the ‘suitability principle’: Deinstitutionalisation
Week 6 - Leaving Care
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...
- Understanding the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children and how to apply them
- Understanding the concepts of necessity and suitability as it is applied to alternative care
- Understanding how to apply full and meaningful participation of children and young people in decisions about their care
- Understanding policy requirements for the implementation of the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children
- Understanding good practice in prevention of family separation, provision of suitable alternative care, family reunification and the process of leaving care
- Understanding the aims and practice of Gatekeeping
- Understanding the aims and practice of deinstitutionalisation
